Following our reveal of the best major label hip-hop albums of 2014 earlier in the week, we now present our favorite indie LP’s of the year. As per usual, it was hard to find 10 inclusions for the major label list, and hard to narrow it down to only 10 on the indie list. 10. [cont.]

‘Shut Up And Rap’ Features M.O.P., Inspectah Deck, Skyzoo, Torae, Willie The Kid, Slaine & REKS and Production from Billy Loman, The Alchemist, Statik Selektah and more. Shut Up And Rap will be released on 12-9-14 via Brick Records.

A large part of what defined the “golden era” (1987-1994) sound of hip-hop music is the complete freedom to use any sample you wished, without repercussion. Let’s back that up – it wasn’t actually “freedom” – people just didn’t realize it was happening. That all changed when Biz Markie needed a haircut. Statik Selektah is [cont.]